Morten: Marvellous game. With his own king completely exposed, white still has time for the odd preparatoty move to keep his attack going. For a while there Nunn and Stean were real wonder boys, playing games that seemed to defy logic.

In the line 30.-,Ka6.31.a4,Bxc3 there is another immediate mate with 32.Rd6#.

Marmot PFL: Bb7 is a natural Sicilian move, but it opens up possibilities to sac on e6. Simply Be7 and 0-0 looks good, as white has already castled that way. Maybe Browne wanted white to play 13 Bxe6!?, although that also looks good. Passive defense just might have saved a draw but that is not Browne's style.

SteinitzLives: Walter wears the waving dress with Nbd7. Easy to see why e6 got played much more and with much greater success. Nbd7 is just an act of submission. I hope Stean at least took him out to dinner (before or after).

drnooo: It reminds me of one of those long forcing variations of Alekhine,more than of Tal, I go here he HAS to go there,etc, my guess is running this off on an engine
both may well have come up with the best movies after around the 13th or so , and if Browne didnt find them STEAN did. Betcha it was Stean who took far less on his clock, that Browne had the table practically shaking so hard at some points you could have used the Richter scale on it.

scormus: <mrkangaroo: I played Stean in a simul once - shame he gave up chess to become an accountant> Absolutely :(

Back then I was playing regularly, and he was one of the players I specially liked for his adventurous, imaginative play. This one is a fine example. 29 b4 is a gem of a move, the sort I could never find. There's a stunning game he played about then, W against .... Ungureanu I think. Najdorf-Polu.

scormus: <njchess> this game certainly demonstrates the perils of B leaving his K on e8 when WR's are on d1 and e1. I wouldnt say thats a real mistake by B, but he has to be preapred to face a fair amount of artillary fire. B is inviting W to "do his worst". I reckon these positions mostly favour W. Browne like to play h6 against W's Bg5 in the Nadjorf, but I think here it h6 was not the best of moves.

Albion 1959: Whatever happened to Michael Stein? He produced some really good games in his heyday, this particular game was a fine effort that won a brilliancy prize at this event for the best game:
However, Jon Speelman does not include this game in his excellent book Best Chess Games 1970 - 1980:
It is not so clear as to where Browne actually went wrong, but I am of the opinion that move 10 b6 followed by Bb7 is too slow and does fit in with the requirements of the position. Why could Browne have not played Be7 followed by O-O instead? This looks okay to me!!
Another subtle point here is that after b6 and Bb7, black has weakened control of the e6 square and is almost inviting a sacrifice on e6. Stean took his chance, because if Browne could have castled, his game is getting developed: Could Browne have defended the position any better than he actually did after the knight sacrifice on e6?

To David 2009 - I had another look at this game last night, Maybe Kf8!? was a "tougher defensive" move? Though it is going to be hard-going for Browne:
Your suggestion Bc8 appears to fall short: Rybka suggested the following line
14.Bxe6 Bc8
15.e5 dxe
16.fxe Qxe5
17.Rae1 Qc5+
18.Kh1 White has the strong Nd5 to follow, the analysis needs to carried further, maybe Browne could have done better but over the board it was never going to be easy after Bc8:

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